You can export picture files in your choice of formats. Any changes you make in QuarkXPress — including everything you can do in the Picture tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu) and in the Picture Effects palette (Window menu) — can be saved with the source picture file or in a new picture file. Applying modifications to a source picture file is referred to as rendering, and it is usually done to speed processing time during output or to optimize files being sent to a service provider.

The Picture Export Options dialog box lets you control which picture effects are applied and how the selected pictures are rendered.

To export a single selected picture, choose File > Save Picture > Selected Picture. To export all pictures in the active layout, choose File > Save Picture > All Pictures in Layout. (Note that this option only applies to compatible formats and color modes.) To export more than one selected picture in a layout, choose Utilities > Usage, click Vista, select the pictures to export, and then click Render.

When you export a picture, you can choose exactly which modifications you want to save with each picture, the file type, and the color mode. In addition, you can choose to overwrite the original picture file or create a new file. Check Overwrite Original Picture to replace the original file.

Check Link Layout to New Picture to save a new file and replace the link to the original file with a link to new file. If you choose to render transformations to the picture (such as scaling, skew, cropping, and rotation), the picture box attributes are adjusted as necessary to make sure the picture looks the same after re-import as it did before.